Improvement in electrical fare-registers



S. BERGMANN. ELECTRICAL FARE-REGISTER.

Patented Jan-1.4, 1876:

N. PETERS, PHOTO-LITHOGRAFMER. WASHINGYON, D Q

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

SIGMUND BEBGMANN, NEW YORK, N. Y.

IMPROVEMENT IN ELECTRICAL FARE-REGISTERS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 171,714, dated January 4, 1876; application filed May 17, 1875.

To all whom "it may concern.-

Be it known that I, SIGMUND BERGMANN, of the city of New York, N. Y., have invented an Improvement in Fare-Registers for Railway-Oars, of which the following is a specification:

I combine with the fare-registering mechanism a clock-movement or train that turns the indicatinghand when said train is liberated. This is used in preference to moving the hand by the direct action of a pull and pawl, because the pull and pawl may not move the hand correctly, but the clock movement is positive in its action upon the indicating mechanism. I also employ an electromagnet to liberate the clock mechanism, and the circuit -wires of this magnet pass to a battery and around the car to various places where the conductor can close the circuit by a metal fork or key, so that the reception of afare can be denoted upon the dial at numereous places instead of the conductor pulling the bell at the ends, as has heretofore been done.

In the drawing, Figure l is a perspective view, partially in section, of the car. Fig. 2 is an elevation of the dial and clock-work, and Fig. 3 is a section of the same. Fig. 4 is a section of the handrail and elevation of the circuit-closing fork. I

I make use of a train of clock-work that is actuated by a spring, and tends to turn the indicating-hand a, but this can only move when the block b is moved, whichblock forms an escapement that allows the shaft 0 of the train of gearing to make nearly a revolution, and upon the backward movement of the block b the pallet 2 of the escapement is arrested, so that it is impossible for the train of gearing to move and indicate one fare by the dial, except when the block b is moved, and this cannot be moved without the clockwork denoting one fare 5 hence the apparatus is more reliable than those registers in which there is no clock-work and the index is moved by the direct action of a pawl operated by hand. i

The block I) may be moved by a strap or wire actuated by hand, but I prefer and use an electro-magnet, 7a, to which one circuitwire of a battery, 1, passes, and thence the two circuit-wires extend around the car in proximity 'to each other, so that the conductor can, by a press-button or other means, close the circuit in any convenient place in the car, and thereby actuate the electro-magnet and block to liberate the clock-work.

It will generally be preferable to employ a bar of wood, 0, running around the car, which bar may be the handrail for the straps, and at opposite sides of the bar I introduce metallic strips 4 and 5, to which the circuit-wires are connected, so that the conductor closes the circuit by a metal fork in a handle, as seen at m, and thereby registers the fare.

There may be two registering mechanisms, onefor five-cent fares and the other for threecent fares, and one battery only be used, connected to the different rails or bars 0, one of which is for one fare and the other for the other.

The bell s will be struck by the hammer t that is pressed back by one of the cam-teeth 12 each movement of the escapement, and flies back against the bell by a spring, 0. The second dial f has a hand, i, that is moved forward step by step to indicate the number of times the hand a is turned, and thus to denote the total of fares collected.

The means for giving this step-by-step motion are shown in Fig. 5, the same consisting of the cam m on the arbor of the hand a, and the arm to, spring-pawl n, and ratchet-wheel I. As the hand a completes its revolution the cam m allows the arm to to be drawn down by its spring, and by the pawl a turn the wheel l one tooth. The hand It moves step by step in unison with the hand a.

I claim as my invention-- 1. The combination, with a fare-register and 1 indicating hand and dial, of a train of gearing actuated by a spring, and an escapement operated by the conductor, so as to move the register by the gearing and spring as each fare is received, as set forth.

2. The bar 0, with metallic strips on opposite sides and'the circuit-closing fork m, in combination with the fare-register for a car, and the electro-magnet for actuating the same, substantially as set forth.

Dated May 13, 1875.

SIGMUN D BERGMANN.

Witnesses:

Gno. T. PINoKNEY, OHAS.'H. SMITH. 

